Shoutbox

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Originally posted by Sunshine
If you really want to see the site improved/changed you should at least give them some proper feedback as in:
What is it exactly you find so awful? How can that be changed to make it better?

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Sunshine, I'm mildly offended that you even suggested that I put "ways to improve the site" into the voting options.

The poll is for a general opinion and the thread is for discussions on smaller details if someone wished to take the time and share their views.

Positive:

• It's good they didn't use Comic Sans and Jokerman font
  
• I'm glad they didn't implement image trails on my cursor

Negative:

• fonts - they matter. it seems there is only one font that has been applied across the whole site and it is Verdana (yes, even on the banner)
  
• the design seems like it was created by someone who is still living in 1990 and applying basic Photoshop tutorials
  
• justified text is for reading newspaper columns
  
• the heading colours, seriously? light brown?
  
• the over-use of reflections (it's a styling fad, thankfully blew over pretty quick)
  
• vertical alignment of both heading menu and footer looks uneven
  
• left aligned copyright text looks strange
  
• wtf is with that "MyPlus! Login / Register"? The mouse doesn't even change into a pointer so I know its clickable
  
• also with that button, what's with the clear cut from "About Us" to another colour?
  
• the menu background looks like it was copied straight out of a tutorial
  
• there is no indication that the latest news box is a rolling window. if you didn't read it in time, bad luck.
  
• the boxes on the right are differing in style (some rounded, some square, mismatched border colours, different title sizes, strange padding options for the "NewsTitle" class)
  
• do you really need to have a "PLUS!" mouseover image on the front page?
  
• this image made me cringe when I noticed the basic bevel and shadowing
  
• as mentioned by Fike, the javascript is broken on some browsers
  
• I'll spare the colours from any verbal abuse.

I'm not quite sure exactly what it is that makes me feel like this site is untrustworthy.
Perhaps it's a combination of all those issues listed + a few dodgy sites I've stumbled upon in the past which had a similar style.

A suggestion would be to take a free template and modify it to your needs.
The colouring, css styling and images would be put together by someone who knows more experienced.


Please, open up your browser to the current site and compare it to it's former glory.


I know some of you guys are official testers or well reputable members of the forum but if you cannot see that this is a step backwards, please visit this page http://www.cssgarden.co.uk to see some modern examples of web pages.